On Tue, 11 May 2021 18:59:31 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 5/11/2021 5:32 PM, bruce bowser wrote:
>> On Monday, May 10, 2021 at 9:41:51 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/9/2021 4:55 PM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 9 May 2021 12:43:23 -0700, Taxed and Spent
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/9/2021 2:06 AM, bruce bowser wrote:
>>>>>>> On Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 9:07:26 PM UTC-4, Lucretia Borgia
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Even with copy/paste it must be a boring world to live in
>>>>>>>> where repeatedly posting troll bait can seem attractive!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You almost begin to think that a bot may be posting here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I figured it was a Facebook bot, working to kill off Usenet and
>>>>>> send more customers their way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting theory!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't get it. Nothing has gotten rid of real Bruce and the
>>>> imposter is just wasting his time. It is so easy to just skip his
>>>> posts or kill file. Seems to be a form of sexual gratification for a
>>>> few.
>>>>
>>>> Shame that it has devolved here to so many posts being critical of
>>>> each other. I choose carefully what I look at but there is still a
>>>> handful of people that can have a pleasant discussion of food related
>>>> or even friendly off topic subjects.
>>> Yup, but geting hard to find.
>>
>> If you wanna talk quality recipes? You could dig into the past, sometimes.
>>
>
>Oh yes, years ago it was a very on topic group with a lot of good
>information. Unfortunately, most newsgroups have gone to crap in the
>past 10 years or so. There were a lot of interesting people here and
>often a regional cook-in where members got together. I was at one also
>some years ago. None of the participants from that day are here today.

That is true of my local group which was big back in the day of
usenet. A bunch of us do still get together once in awhile at a local
pub for an HNO - holistic night out